Category: Boardgames!

Name Galaxy Trucker Players 2 – 4 Play Time At least 90 minutes Game Style Build and Race Galaxy Trucker is one of my favourite games! I won’t even try to get into the intricacies of the game, but the basics are as such: There are two main phases. In phase one, you build your…

Name Zombie Dice Players 2 – Many Play Time 5 – 10 minutes Game Style Play and Pass, Push your luck *CONTENT ADVISORY* – This one includes necessary Zombie defences, which includes shotgun blasts. The situation is fantasy, so I would consider this game safe for Grade 7-8 and higher. For a good party game,…

Name Dutch Blitz Players 2 – 4 Play Time Quick and Lively Game Style Card Laying, Simultaneous Play Nothing says fast paced like Dutch Blitz. A game of stacking and claiming piles, each round is a ridiculous clash which reqrds the ones with fast hand eye-coordination. All that is necessary is the ability to count…

Name Ugg-Tect Players Some – Lots Play Time Quite Variable Game Style Creating Structures, Communication I find that students gravitate towards the more active games, like Jungle Speed. The physicality speaks to them at a instinctive level, and they find it much more intuitive than a lot of the card-laying turn-based games. Ugg-tect gets them…

Name Ticket To Ride – So many different versions! Players 2-5 Play Time About an Hour Game Style Hand Building, Route Claiming Beyond Settlers of Catan, I find that the other game that most casual gamers have played is Ticket To Ride. An extremely easy game to pick up, it challenges the players to connect…

Name Pandemic Players 2-6 Play Time About an Hour Game Style Cooperation, Card Playing To say that I get excited about board games is an understatement, but some will get me to the table more quickly than others. Enter Pandemic, the first cooperative game that I had ever played. Here are the basic rules. You…

Name Powergrid/Megawatts Players 2-6 Play Time 2 hours! Game Style Resource Management/Auction, Bidding This really is a great game for a long and lazy Saturday. I do apologize for the misleading title, as these are actually the same game, just with different maps. I picked up the copy of Megawatts for my library because it…

Photo from Wired Name Tsuro of the Seas Players 2-8 Play Time 10 – 30 minutes Game Style Tile Laying, Path Making This is the first game that I kickstarted (see the next here). I took a flier on it, and I have not regretted it. You are the captain of a ship trying to…

Photo from Beasts of War Name Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow + Expansions Players 8-Everyone Play Time 30 minutes and up Game Style Party/Storytelling Game I want to give a shout out to the Marentettes for sharing this wonderful large group game that gets my entire class playing. I’ve learned from my students that this is…

Name Jungle Speed Players 2-Lots Play Time As much time as you have Game Style Fast play, Matching It’s a jungle out there, and this game proves it. Players start with a deck of cards, and play a card in front of them. If the pattern on their card matches another players, they enter the…